Cárdenas Juan

The Devil of the Provinces (eBook, ePUB)

Übersetzer: Davis Lizzie

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

• Sophomore entry from critically acclaimed author: Ornamental was a finalist for the 2020 PEN Translation Award and reviewed by the New York Times, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Guardian, and others.
• Timely subject matter: addresses destructive effects of monocrop agriculture, religious fanaticism, and capitalism.
• Propulsive, atmospheric noir novel that subverts expectations: while this book has many classic ingredients of a thriller-a washed-up hero, a mysterious murder, secrets, underworld figures, sex, booze, and drugs-Cárdenas twists the way these elements play out to create sophisticated commentary on power and capital in the global south. The plot is full of misdirections and red herrings, and is more interested in raising questions than answering them.
• Charismatic author-translator duo eager for events: Juan Cárdenas will be living in Ithaca, New York in summer 2023, and both he and translator Lizzie Davis are excited for in-person and virtual events.
• For readers of Fernanda Melchor, Eugene Lim, Rachel Ingalls, and Yuri Herrera.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Coffee House Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. September 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781566896788
• Artikelnr.: 72353290

Autorenporträt

Juan Cárdenas (1978) is a Colombian art critic, curator, translator, and author of seven works of fiction, most recently the story collection Volver a comer del árbol de la ciencia and the novel Elástico de sombra. He has translated the works of such writers as William Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe, Gordon Lish, David Ohle, J. M. Machado de Assis, and Eça de Queirós. In 2014, his novel Los estratos received the Otras Voces Otros Ámbitos Prize. In 2017, he was named one of the thirty-nine best Latin American writers under the age of thirty-nine by the Hay Festival in Bogotá. Cárdenas currently coordinates the masters program in creative writing at the Caro y Cuervo Institute in Bogotá, where he works as a professor and researcher.

Lizzie Davis is a translator, a writer, and an editor at Coffee House Press. Her recent projects include Juan Cárdenas's Ornamental (a finalist for the 2021 PEN Translation Prize); Elena Medel's The Wonders, cotranslated with Thomas Bunstead; and work by Valeria Luiselli, Pilar Fraile Amador, and Aura García-Junco.